"I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" said Elizabeth impatiently. "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Mr.Darcy. "Of a fine, healthy, stout love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Be what you would seem to be- or, if you'd like it to be put more simply- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. -The Duchess from Alice in Wonderland
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, and my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting by the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. -From Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Be what you would seem to be- or, if you'd like it to be put more simply- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. -The Duchess from Alice in Wonderland
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, and my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting by the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. -From Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street
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poetryality on November 19, 2004Thank you ever so much for the kind comments left on my author page. I love your quotes here, they made me smile.
You have been a great encouragement to me this morning, and I in turn am curious to find out more about you through your poetry.
Blessings & Love,
Renee
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Mustafa on November 18, 2004hey
: how is writing 
its good 10x -
beloved hate on October 23, 2004thanks for the comment on my poem "drama"
highschool is FULL OF IT hah i'm doing gr 12 right now...
and just wishing it could be over...
i know i'll miss it next year, but like 90% of my good friends
are in university or taking a year off... etc etc lol
i don't really hang wit ppl my age
and yeah there is drama.. but it's easier to avoid
cuz ur right, i don't see them every day! haha it's kinda cool
anywho. thanks a lot for the comment
take care -
Suitcase Balladeer on September 20, 2004not really implying to much on that poem, except its a place i like to go to and I essentially end up burning a whole in my wallet every time i go there. Also I tend to try to attatch myself to certain places i go and become apart of it in some cases, that poem reflects those feelings. Same tends to be when I talk of New York City
